Who will read this?

I often write to newspapers to have my two penn'orth on a variety of subjects and sometimes they even get printed, but I have no idea who will want to read this. So if you have bothered, thank you.

This is the rambling of an ordinary woman whose life keeps on changing likes everyone else's. I have a lovely husband, two grown up children and three even more grown up step children. I trained to be a kinesiologist after being helped back to good health by one myself, qualifying six years ago, stumbled into a full-time admin job just over two years ago trying to help out a friend's husband which gave me a bit of confidence that I was still employable. When you haven't had a job for 19 years you start to seriously doubt your abilities. After 11 months I left and found my current job in an estate agent's office.

Most people don't know what kinesiology is but it is a very simple but clever way of identifying problems in the body using muscle testing and correcting or curing them with either manual corrections or with herbs or homeopathic preparations. I principally help people with candida, having worked out a good protocol which swiftly and effectively gets people better from feeling 'tired all the time'.

I am also good with other digestive problems and was trained to use a wonderful manual technique for correcting hiatal hernias which has sorted out the cause of pain which has plagued clients for years. It is a lovely feeling when people get better because of suggestions I have made or techniques I have carried out based on my training.

I also really enjoy working in the estate agent's office. I have always loved houses and interior design and even read a lot of feng shui books about ten years ago. If I get interested in something I tend to read a book or find websites to help me learn more. There is a lot more to working in an estate agent's office than I ever realised and I think most people under estimate the amount of work which is carried out on behalf of clients.

From being a child I have always loved fashion and used to religiously read the fashion pages from the age of 6 or 7, I am not exaggerating. I remember Evangeline Carter being the fashion editor of the Sunday Times, which probably dates me! My mother was also very interested in fashion, buying Vogue Pattern magazines from which she made some of her own clothes and mine. She was a very good, untrained, seamstress who made a beautiful wedding dress for me. Sadly we lost her ten years ago and I still miss her now.

I was a teenager in the Seventies when teenagers actually seemed to care about politics. The apathy I see around me nowadays totally amazes me. I don't see how a large part of the general public can think that politics has nothing to do with them when it totally affects the way that life is lived in this country. They seem to think that the changes which have taken place in this country have just happened by remote control. Not that the idiots who currently have a majority in the House of Commons were actually voted in by members of the public. I don't understand how they can't see the link between their apathy and the continuing majority of the Labour Party and the development of what increasingly feels like the start of a police state, because they think they know what is best for everyone.

I think that is probably enough for a first effort.

Best wishes,

Katrina